This piece is taken from an album titled Swift Current,
released earlier this year. This body of work is directly related to
Saskatchewan, where I was born and raised. The name Swift Current is
taken from the Cree word for the province, which means âswift flowing
riverâ. It is a province which has endured many hardships due to
economic turmoil, most memorably throughout the 1930s when most crops
failed due to by drought, hail and grasshoppers. My aim was to explore
through sound the feelings of some of these ghost towns and the modern
ruins which dot the landscape. This piece in particular was one such
meditation on the many grain elevators which have been abandoned. They
stand as deteriorating monuments of times past. Their disuse has
increased steadily over the past few decades, as there are
approximately 200 elevators in operation today, down from 3000 in the
1950s.

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